Penis pill peddler stiffs AOL spam insider

Penis pill peddler stiffs AOL spam insider: “An AOL employee has been arrested and charged with conspiracy, after selling 92 million screen names to an Internet gambling operator in Las Vegas. 24-year old Jason Smathers found out how to access what the charges describe as AOL’s ‘highly secure database’ when he was assigned another employee’s laptop PC. All the instructions he needed were on the machine.

Using his, er, AOL email account, Smathers got in touch with Sean Dunaway, who then sold the list onto spammers. Dunaway later boasted of using the list to boost his own Internet business and charged $52,000 for the full list, or $2000 for each letter of the alphabet, according to police charges. Smathers also gave himself away by using his new database privileges to first check on his own AOL account.”